It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that slays everything worthy of the name of life.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

Love that is not madness is not love.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.

A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again